Gu Cheng reunited with Quan Baoya after a long absence, and stayed with her in Tokyo for two days. After all, since www.biquge.info the sister recovered from her injury, he has not accompanied each other.

During this period, he also happened to witness the explosion of the first album of NICONICO virtual idol Ai-chan (AI sauce), which was served by Kwon Bo-ah as the sound source and motion capture animation Maimi.

That's right.,Because it's a virtual singer provided by a video site.,So the animated girls on those MVs,Just use the name Ai-chan.。 The final animated image is also a big-eyed cute girl with pink hair parted in the middle, jumping off and smart, and wearing a rabbit ear headband.

AFTER ALL, IN ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE, YOUTUBE'S FIRST GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VIRTUAL IDOLS IS CALLED BY THIS NAME. The names of Hatsune Miku or Luo Tianyi either have a certain national style and are not suitable for internationalization, or the romanization of Fusang is more difficult to pronounce and is difficult to popularize, and they are not as simple and easy to remember as Ai-chan.

Gu Cheng hopes that the MMD channel of the NICONICO video network can be killed all over the world in the future, and cross-language recognition is naturally very important.

The songs of the album have been recorded one after another since March, and only one song, "Thousand Sakura", has made its debut at the ceremony of the Fuso Film Academy Awards. The three songs, "Quanyu Tianxia" in Chinese, "Tik-Tok" in English, and "Only One" in Yiyu, were not announced until May.

After all, it's easy to sing, but the post-production of animation takes time, and the middle Kwon Bo Ya was injured for a while, so she couldn't capture the dance, so it was delayed until May - digital albums, small discs, online auditions, and MMD videos on the Niconico network were released simultaneously on 4 channels.

Gu Cheng didn't expect much money from the music itself, he just hoped to open up a new market.

The release schedule slightly coincides with the start of the "Girls' Generation" program in China and the open beta schedule of "World of Warcraft", so the momentum in the first two weeks in Huaxia is not good, and the attention is not high enough.

However, in Fuso and Dongyi, the effect is very good. It has only been on the market for a week, and it has entered a hot sale.

Especially in Fuso, because "Thousand Sakura" was very outstanding at the Academy Awards Gala, but no record company provided the sound source, except for the scum quality gun version ripped against the TV screen that night, the people of Fuso couldn't hear this song at all in the past two months, and they have been whetted by hunger marketing.

And "Thousand Sakura" is also the only live-action version of the four songs, and everyone knows that this song is sung by the most popular diva today.

Kwon's Asian album sales in '04 reached a staggering 8 million copies, which was higher than the total sales of Hikaru Utada in '03. It's just that Quan Baoya's 8 million sales are supported by the three East Asian countries, and 5 million in Fusang, and the remaining 3 million rely on Dongyi and Huaxia markets.

With such a hot little diva to support the scene, the record sold a huge 750,000 copies in the first week of its release, and the cumulative number reached 1.3 million copies two weeks later. According to the trend estimated by the industry, by the end of the year, it will definitely reach the peak results that are not inferior to last year's "メリクリ".

In Dongyi, 600,000 copies have been sold in the past few weeks, and the majority of fans have expressed great enthusiasm for Kwon Bo-ah's first 100% self-composed song. Historically, "Only One" was originally one of the best-selling album singles after Kwon's transformation, and now various publicity campaigns emphasizing "100% self-composed lyrics and songs" are also very fast, and everyone is very curious about the transformation of this 18-year-old girl, so it is not surprising that it is a big hit.

On the NICONICO website, otaku fans received rave reviews every day, and later even brought in otaku, achieving a similar ratio of male to female fans for the first time, but these achievements did not make Kwon Bo-ah happy.

"It's still full of vitality with Bao'er sauce."

"Wow! I didn't expect the current animated singers to dance so vigorously and in place, it's really clean and heroic. ”

"Is this dance grabbed from the movements of Bao'er-chan? It feels like the style is too godlike. ”

"Definitely, there is this type of technology now, two or three years ago, when Peter Jackson made the movie "The Lord of the Rings", when filming the dragons ridden by the dragon knights, he relied on taking a few chickens to capture the action, and then re-pasting the material, and now that the technology has advanced, it should be directly pasted to the mold."

"Is it molded? Then this post-production is still very well-made, I don't see any flaws in the molding, when the dance moves are crossed at the waist, the skin on the waist will be elastic and sunken, you look carefully frame by frame! When the hand is waved over the chest, there will also be nipple shake, instead of directly passing the arm through the **. ”

"Upstairs hurt me to go back and watch it a dozen times! Sure enough, yes, ahhh......hh

"Why is the screen dirty......"

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The popularity of Dongyi and Fusang was something that Quan Baoya himself could have predicted a long time ago.

After all, her voice is too recognizable in these countries, no matter what the image of the virtual singer is drawn in the end, how poor the dancing animation is, just selling the face of her voice, it is a matter of course.

She has already scored too many such achievements, and she is aesthetically fatigued, which is not uncommon.

Every day, Kwon Bo-ah will subconsciously go to NICONICO to see everyone's reactions, but the increase in otaku fans makes her feel a little disgusted in her heart.

Those people are so hateful, no matter how they comment, they are so lustful! The Lun family didn't take the sexy route at all, dancing with such a conscience, it was actually looked at by people like that!

However, after the "Tik-Tok" single released through the Amazon channel in the United States also became popular, all the little unhappiness of Quan Baoya disappeared.

Gu Cheng's YY and YY networks have been deployed in the United States for 20 months and have accumulated 30 million users. Even the "Dingdang Network", which is used for online shopping content products, has also set up a subsidiary in the United States to ensure that if the 30 million YY users want to, they can also buy things on the "Dingdang Network".

It's just that you can't use "Alipay" in the United States, because it is still a little difficult to take photos related to VISA UnionPay in the United States, so even if someone wants to buy it, they can only pay directly with online banking without intermediate guarantees. This system has greatly raised the threshold for consumers to worry about the credit of merchants, so it has not opened the market much so far.

Therefore, at present, if Gu Cheng wants to sell records or DVDs in the rice market in 05, he basically has to rely on the channels of his competitor Amazon.

Amazon's Bezos has set the tone, which is nothing more than making money if he has it, and treating everyone equally. Therefore, regardless of whether Quan Baoya has a very close cooperative relationship with its main global competitors, as long as the other party is willing to do things according to the rules and give a commission, Amazon will let it be sold.

It's just that Amazon won't give publicity.

In the propaganda work in the United States, it is still relied on Gu Cheng to use the advertising resources of YY to carry out social communication. The purchase link portals given after the spread were made into two, which undoubtedly led to Dingdang and Amazon respectively.

Those who are willing to take the trouble of using a dingbell net are naturally the best. But it turns out that most people go to Amazon.

It is equivalent to Gu Cheng using the resources of YY.com, and indirectly also pulling a wave of new customers for Bezos's Amazon, and Bezos's abacus is naturally playing well.

Since mid-May, because of the social spread of YY.com, the song "Tik-Tok" has suddenly become popular, making all musicians unbelievable.

"The digital single sold more than 220,000 copies in the first week, and the cumulative number of copies reached 390,000 in the second week, and the annual sales are expected to easily exceed one million!"

And such a song is actually sung by a newcomer who has never heard of it, and the MV filmed uses an unheard of animated virtual singer!

Rao is a small number of scum houses in the United States, there are not many people who watch Fusang animation, and there are great differences in aesthetics between Eastern and Western people, but I am still impressed by this well-made song and the energetic PARTY-DJ style dance.

For this, there is only one person who has expected it a long time ago and does not feel strange at all, and that is Gu Cheng.

"Joke, what song is Tik-Tok? Let a newcomer like Qian Niuer, who is a backstage creative type and has no face or no voice, can rely on electronic tone tuning, and become famous with annual sales of 700,000 copies of a song, then it is a masterpiece of electronic music in the era of online MV video! Now coupled with the bombardment of YY.com and NICONICO, isn't it easy to sell more than 1 million copies a year in the United States? This is Gu Cheng's idea.

米国 is the world's largest record market,05 years when the record industry was not the most serious impact of the Internet digitalization,In the annual newcomer king of the United States,About 150~2 million copies can be sold。

It was not until after the 08 financial crisis, with the further deepening of the digital industry and the rise of the mobile Internet, that the sales of the annual rookie king generally fell below 1.5 million - for example, the rookie king who debuted in 08, "Sister Fruit" Katy Perry, is 1.38 million a year, and is the first rookie king in the United States to fall below 1.5 million.

According to the declining trend of the total capacity of the industry, Quan Baoya is now selling 900,000 copies, which is about the same strength as the parallel time and space Qian Niu'er debuted in 09 and sold 700,000 copies. MORE THAN 900,000 COPIES, IT CAN BE REGARDED AS A SATISFACTORY ANSWER SHEET HANDED OVER BY QUAN BAOYA, WHICH IS THE CREDIT OF YY NETWORK AND NICONICO'S PUBLICITY.

Gu Cheng estimated that Quan Baoya's sales in the United States could reach 1.30~1.4 million in the end, and if he was lucky, he could rush to 1.5 million. But the rookie king of the year will definitely not be able to get it, and there is still a gap of about two percent. This is caused by the hard injury of Asian singers in North America, and there is no way to do it.

If you add the United Kingdom and Canada, and even other English-speaking countries that can be touched by Amazon and Dingdang, it is estimated that the final sales can rush to 1.8 million.

For this result, Quan Baoya has been pleasantly surprised.

"Unexpectedly, I didn't go to Hollywood to develop, and I could sell millions of copies of digital singles in the United States! What if I have a new goal? ”

"Don't! Don't! Hollywood is too unfriendly to us Asians, let's just use our creative ability and virtual singers to play with them. Gu Cheng interrupted the girl's lust without hesitation.

In his eyes, since the aesthetics are different, there is nothing to play with the Chinese people. Why bother to sharpen and chisel a good-looking Asian beauty to cater to white values?

Wouldn't it be better to make the culture of East Asians the mainstream culture of the world?